The Shaman of Sunset

He set down a stack of books he had scooped from the occult section of his favorite book store on Sunset blvd. All on witchcraft and shape-shifting shaman.

The man behind the counter looked at the titles of each book as he rang them up.

“You a warlock or something?” he asked.

The man stood there a moment while masticating a toothpick. “Yup” he answered slightly amused.

Just then, with the chime of bell, the actor Judd Nelson walked in and interrupted with a question.

“Do you guys have a copy of Aldous Huxley’s, The Doors of Perception?”

The man behind the counter quipped “Do people still read that book?”

“I intend to.” said Nelson dressed in a long black overcoat with a black scraggly bearded face and rounded sunglasses covering his beady eyes….

You see, shaman are taught to see these little moments as a form of celestial synchronicity. Intent filtering through time. A wink from William Blake, passed through Aldous Huxley, over to Jim Morrison, assisted by Judd Nelson, and handed surreptitiously to the mind of the man masticating a toothpick….

Indeed, all shaman - all shape-shifters….

He gathered up his books, and stepped outside, stopped, amused again by what he first saw.

As the neon lights from the Whisky A Go-Go danced across his eyes, a car past by with the windows rolled down singing break on through to the other side.